The Board has remanded the case for additional development due to incomplete medical records and other procedural issues.
The deciding factor: The VA is required to provide necessary assistance in obtaining evidence, including reviewing claims folder and scheduling appropriate examinations.
- Claimed conditions
- arthritis of the feet, disability of the left leg (kneecap), disability of the right leg (kneecap), left ankle instability, right ankle instability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 13, 2004
- Citation
- 0401104
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What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for left ankle instability as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected left ankle disability and hypertension, but denied increased ratings for the left ankle disability and other forms of arthritis.
- Granted
The Board granted an initial 20 percent disability rating for right ankle instability, resolving all reasonable doubt in the Veteran's favor.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings and remanded other issues related to her right ankle disability.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for a left ankle disability, finding that the current left ankle disability is etiologically related to the service-connected left foot plantar fasciitis.
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